It’s been quite the day already here on the usual “quiet” Warsaw Wesleyan Wednesday…
Had lunch with my buddy Steve Zerbe today – they’ve got some prospective job opportunities that they’re following up on in the next few days and weeks. Exciting & nervous in the Zerbe household I’m sure. We ate at our favorite China Palace where we BOTH behaved ourselves with more conversing than eating – both keeping it to a one-plate limit!
Now if I could just give up the late-night Oreo binges I might actually lose some weight.
When I got back to the office I had a chance to converse with a guy who dropped by the church looking for some “help”. We provide groceries one day a week for needy families, and that’s on Thursdays, so I referred him to that ministry tomorrow, but had a good chance to talk to him about life, his amazingly artistic tattoos, and the last 20 years he spent in prison! Can you imagine 20-years in prison? I found out from him today something pretty interesting: when you’re in prison, the first 4 years seem to go by pretty quickly and then monotony REALLY sets in and things get pretty bad. That’s when you put in a request to “move” to a different prison! Then you spend 4 more years in a different place, different people, different guards, etc. And you do a 4-year rotation-based prison-stent!
Another great “prison insight” this week. Hopefully the Lord’s not trying to “up” my prison knowledge for any specific purpose…
I’m looking forward to theBOX tonight – we’ve been breaking up into small groups over the last couple of weeks and will continue to do that over the summer months. Discussion really happens on a different level when small-groups are formed. I like that.
One more bit of information that I must share with the web-world. My wife, Jess, was guaranteed a position at Harrison Elementary next year! We were praying that everything would come together for that to happen, and God has come through once again!
